Nik Taylor | Lightnews

For me, it's that it isn't considered remotely scandalous. Shows how low things are right now. I also have issues with the speciesism in there but that's not why I'm finding it so depressing.

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · 21d

New post. #animalrights #domesticviolence

Animals and Domestic and Family Violence: Lucy’s Project Roundtable

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the third National Roundtable on Domestic and Family Violence Perpetrated Against People and Animals organised by Lucy’s Project. Lucy’s Project “aims to impr…

animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · 26d

New blog post about a fab recent local (Aotearoa) animal rights event and scholar activism. @animalstudies.bsky.social @animalrightsint.bsky.social @animalaid.org.uk

Scholar Activism, Hope and the Aotearoa Animal Rights Gathering 2025

Animal rights gathering emphasized community, advocacy, and researcher collaboration.

animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Oct 27

Vegan troubles #51
It's (very unexpectedly) snowing outside. Rush out of bed all excited to see the snow. Grin like a child at it. Then remember all the animals in fields who will be freezing, some dying, and want to cry.

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Sep 29

Re-sharing this as it is more relevant than ever. I can't believe things have become worse since we wrote it! @nteunion.bsky.social @insidehighered.com @timeshighered.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social
theconversation.com/battered-and...

‘Battered and broken. I must get out’: what staff told us about teaching and working in universities today

Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.

theconversation.com

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Aug 31

What's it like working in the modern university? Stories from around the world. @nteunion.bsky.social @nteunational.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @chronicle.com @insidehighered.com @wearehighered.bsky.social workinginthemodernuniversity.wordpress.com/blog-2/

Stories

Visit the post for more.

workinginthemodernuniversity.wordpress.com

Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 10

We’re breeding far too many ‘pets’ into existence, marketing them as children’s toys and trivialising ‘ownership’. Under capitalism, sentient beings have become commodities, mass produced and often disposable with little regard to environmental costs.
@zoei.bsky.social has done great work on ‘pets’

Henrik Hindby Koszyczarek @henrikhindby.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Dogs catch many types of wildlife and can injure or kill them. Their scent and droppings scare smaller animals. Then there’s the huge environmental cost of feeding these carnivores and the sheer quantity of their poo. We love our pet dogs, but they come with a very real cost."
tinyurl.com/5btdthby

Good boy or bad dog? Our 1 billion pet dogs do real environmental damage

We don’t want to admit it, but our beloved pet dogs do a lot of environmental damage, from killing or terrifying wildlife to emissions from pet food.

tinyurl.com

🅦🅞🅡🅣🅗🅢🅞🅜🅔 @worthsome029.bsky.social · Apr 14

Poor thing has enough to worry about surviving in that environment without these stupid fuckers.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · May 24

"This is what we were voting for!"

From a friend in academia:

>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<

Great work.

Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · Jun 4

Eating crabs is weird.

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Jun 24

They deserve to live too. Let's just stick with plants.

Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · Jun 24

A new UK gov-funded study shows insect protein for animal feed can have up to 13.5x the climate impact of soy. It props up factory farming, not sustainability. The real solution? Plants. A plant-based food system cuts emissions, saves land & water, and protects our future.
#StopClimateChange

Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · Jun 24

A new UK gov-funded study shows insect protein for animal feed can have up to 13.5x the climate impact of soy. It props up factory farming, not sustainability. The real solution? Plants. A plant-based food system cuts emissions, saves land & water, and protects our future.
#StopClimateChange

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · Jun 20

TASA is deeply dismayed by Macquarie Uni’s proposed restructuring that would decimate sociology. The social sciences matter — they help us navigate a complex world. Our full statement & call to action here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

#Sociology #HigherEd #SupportHASS

www.tasa.org.au

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Jun 16

And next in New Zealand, the local hunting competition that has categories for kids to enter into specifically. More dead animals equates to more cash handed over. And this is called "entertainment". #animalrights #banhunting @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social @animal-justice.bsky.social

The Hunt - North Canterbury Kids Hunt

The hunt Register now The North Canterbury Kids Hunt is open to all children up to and including 16 years of age. We welcome entries from all over New Zealand but you must be at weigh in to claim a pr...

nckidshunt.co.nz

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · Jun 4

Meat eaters are weird. I keep telling them so.

Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · Jun 4

Eating crabs is weird.

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · May 25

As always, the consequences of human actions are never limited to humans alone. Terribly sad.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · May 24

"This is what we were voting for!"

From a friend in academia:

>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<

Great work.

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · May 13

New post and something of a request for help!! #AnimalRights #AnimalAdvocacy #ScholarAdvocates

Can academics change the world?

I haven’t posted on here in a while. And that’s because, frankly, I haven’t been writing. I haven’t been able to write, more accurately. It’s not writers block. I can work on revisions and things t…

animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · May 13

Three new stories from people working in the neoliberal university on our site today. More about them and the project at the link below.

Stories

Visit the post for more.

workinginthemodernuniversity.wordpress.com

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · May 3

Yep, great news. Here's hoping it heralds an actual lean to the left, rather than these centrists we think are left these days!

Nik Taylor @animalsociology.bsky.social · May 3

Happy to see the Labor victory in Australia (and the Liberals in Canada). Hoping it is, in fact, a turn away from Trumpism. But now can we please see a genuine left emerge, as opposed to the centrism that currently passes.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 3

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥

@froomkin.bsky.social

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news